Product Description: Since the 1970s, Nicaragua has experienced four major regime changes―shifts in its fundamental logic, structure, and operational code of governance. What accounts for such instability? Have other states that transitioned to democracy followed a similar path? Considering these questions, David Close explores the dynamics of Nicaragua's movements toward and away from democracy since 1979...read more

Product Description: Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general...read more

Product Description: In an effort to understand how and why democratically elected governments evade the limitations that democratic accountability and popular participation place on them, Undoing Democracy examines how democratic rule was undermined in Nicaragua in the 1990's...read more

Product Description: This volume is a series of original articles analyzing eleven case studies (from Africa and the Americas) of revolutionary movements that have reconstituted themselves into formal political parties. The book's analyzes the factors influencing the success and failure of these former politico-military movements within their new democratic contexts...read more

Product Description: In 1990, Nicaraguans replaced the Sandinista regime with the conservative government of Violeta Chamorro - a term of office marked by constitutional, economic, partisan and social conflict. Close examines these conflicts and assesses their impact on Nicaragua's political actors and institutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This volume examines the origins of the Greek civil war. It covers the right-wing dictatorship (1935-41); the invasion and collapse of authority (1941-1943); the EAM challenge of the old order (1943-1944); the defeat of the revolution; the White Terror; the descent to civil war; and the war itself.

'What role will legislatures have in the efforts to consolidate democracy in Latin America? Seven case-studies (Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay) focus on 'the conditions under which legislatures work in Latin America's transitional polities.' Needler suggests that the current trend toward democratic rule - 'the most democratic in Latin American history' - may usher in a greater role for legislatures in promoting governments free of military intervention, authoritarian dictatorships, and intrusive US foreign policymaking. Legislatures now merit much more attention than in past studies of government and politics'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/